Every week, I read at least one article from the New England Journal of Medicine to keep myself abreast of the latest AI technologies and how they are impacting healthcare. However, some people fear that some doctors and other healthcare-related jobs will be replaced by AI in the future. How to mitigate this?
2 options come to mind:
- Pick a niche area in the medical field like maybe in surgery where AI doesn’t exist yet.
- Embrace AI to deepen your experience / solve unsolved problems. Using solutions that offer explainability as part of the output will save considerable human effort.
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I don’t think doctors will be replaced; rather, the way they do their jobs will evolve.
If you look back 100+ years, things we use daily like anesthesia and X-rays didn’t exist. AI is just the next tool in that lineage; it will enhance a doctor’s capabilities and allow them to work more effectively.
While AI might take over repetitive or organizational tasks and roles, “hands-on” professions like medicine, HVAC, and electrical work are safe. In a way, I can see this bringing us back to a time of fewer, more specialized professions where the human element is the primary focus.
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Machines in their entirity are engineered to be more efficient than humans for mechanical jobs, for eg. Excel sheet can sum thousand of rows much faster than any human can do. A human can bever compete in these type of tasks with a machine. But machines cannot be creative, they can create combinations of past fed information but not new creations in the human intelligent sense.
As tools become more and more efficient humans will concentrate in jobs that involve creativity, whatever that might be.